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Poem by Amy Lowell


Monadnock in Early Spring


Cloud-topped and splendid, dominating all
The little lesser hills which compass thee,
Thou standest, bright with April’s buoyancy,
Yet holding Winter in some shaded wall
Of stern, steep rock; and startled by the call
Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy
And cast a cloud of crimson, silently,
Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Pale shrivelled oak leaves, while the snow beneath
Melts at their phantom touch.  Another year
Is quick with import.  Such each year has been.
Unmoved thou watchest all, and all bequeath
Some jewel to thy diadem of power,
Thou pledge of greater majesty unseen.



Amy Lowell


Amy Lowell's other poems:
  1. Red Slippers
  2. On Carpaccio’s Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula
  3. The Fool Errant
  4. Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina
  5. The Green Bowl


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